How many hours work would it take for all possible books to be scanned by attendant scanners?

How to prevent failure rate/damage to potentially valuable books?

Content & Licensing

danny discussed the lack of availability of valuable rare books.

Mushrooms, Russia and History (1957) is one example and New Alexandria has made the book available digitally.

danny suggested scanning for users according to their own purposes (archival and reference) and to keep discussion of licensing issues in order to find ways to successfully get the content released.

kristina recommended looking at other precedents of online file sharing including the Prelinger Library and Open Library where publications can be scanned for sharing via the web. A few other examples: aaaaarg.org (archive of art, theory, and philosophy texts) and ubuweb (archive of art, music, experimental film and performance recordings).

felipe discussed a project called Sabotage in which academic texts were made available in Brazil.

miloh mentioned that scanner users could also bring ephemeral materials (e.g., notebooks, diaries, newspaper clippings, photos, etc) for scanning on a limited use basis, accessible through encryption keys given out to people from the person who made the scan. These materials could be accessed perhaps further into the future by researchers of all kinds (genealogical, sociological, artistic, etc...).

TO DOS:

-Research and share information about public domain, fair use, and copyright as guidelines for scanners.

-Discuss same issues with Prelingers, Ace Monster Toys, and creator of aaaaarg.

-Develop documentation and FAQs for users on various issues including, but not limited to:

how to create scans

how and where to upload scans

how to secure or share scans

recommended sharing protocols

references:

references..
aaaaarg.org

conclusions:

committed to purchase the last of the diybookscanners from d. reetz, and work to get the remaining parts and get it built for use asap. We're also interested in building other models of scanners with different levels of automation and capability.